GRS 150
CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO IMMEDIATE TOKYO
TELNO 003
OF 09100OZ MAY 86
CONFIDENTIAL
TOP COPY
FOLLOWING FOR GOMERSALL FROM BOYD.
GOVERNOR'S VISIT : CALLS ON JAPANESE MINISTERS.
MIGHT WE HAVE YOUR HELP AGAIN? THE JAPANESE CONSUL GENERAL
TELEPHONED IN A STEW THIS AFTERNOON TO SAY THAT THE EMBASSY'S NOTE
VERBALE TO THE GAIMUSHO YESTERDAY DID NOT CORRESPOND IN ALL RESPECTS
WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CALLS MATSUURA HIMSELF HAD EARLIER
PUT TO TOKYO, NAMELY FOR PM PLUS FOREIGN MINISTER, FINANCE MINISTER, MITIN MINISTER, ECONOMIC PLANNING AGENCY MINISTER AND MR. ESAK. THE
EMBASSY'S NOTE HAD OMITTED FM AND EPA. THE MINISTRY WERE PUZZLED
AND MATSUURA HIMSELF CONSIDERABLY EMBARRASSED.
2. MOST GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD POUR A L'ITTLE OIL ON THESE TEMPORARILY AGITATED WATERS. AM NOT SURPRISED AT SOME DISCREPANCIES, GIVEN
THE VARIETY OF INPUTS TO WHICH YOU (AND WE) HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED. ON
THE ACTUAL CALL, MATSUURA SAID THAT THERE WAS NOT MUCH PROGRESS.
HOWEVER THE EPA MINISTER HAD NOW AGREED TO SEE SHR E. YOUDE AT
15.40 ON 26 MAY AND MR. ESAKI REMAINED IN PROSPECT FOR THE LUNCH ON
27. THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS WERE STILL HANGING FIRE.
3. AM SEENING MATSUURA AND THE TDC AT 1600 LOCAL ON 12 MAY. PERHAPS
YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE GIVING THE GAIMUSHO, AND ME, A BUZZ BEFORE
THEN?
YOUDE
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